ISLAMABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah asked the federal government on Tuesday to release block-wise data of the census to allay fears of political parties...
Mr Shah was of the view that it would be easier for the stakeholders to verify the block-wise figures, so that if someone had objections to the data, the exercise could be carried out again in those areas where any irregularity was found...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has designed a polling station-wise result management system for the coming general elections to improve accuracy, efficiency and transparency of result tabulation process...
The proposed bill is expected to be passed during the current year...
ISLAMABAD: The idea of holding local government elections in phases in Sindh and Punjab appears to be gaining momentum with both the provincial governments seeking staggered polls for better management — a proposal that also suits the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)...
A senior ECP official told Dawn on Wednesday that the commission had received a recommendation from the National Assembly’s standing committee on parliamentary...
72bn in direct taxes collected by the Federal Board of Revenue in 2014-15 came from three cities — Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad — counted among the country’s most developed urban centres...
The combined population of the three cities is a little over 30m of Pakistan’s total estimated population of 190m...
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Senator Sirajul Haq has expressed reservations over Punjab government’s decision of holding the local body polls in phases and has termed it a tactic to achieve the desired results...
A column carried on Tuesday by DPRK Today, one of the reclusive and dynastic state's mouthpieces, described Trump as a “wise politician” and the right choice for United States voters in the Nov 8 US presidential election...
“It turns out that Trump is not the rough-talking, screwy, ignorant candidate they say he is, but is actually a wise politician and a prescient presidential candidate,” said the column, written by a China-based...
But she said the taxes must be “wise”...
“Wise taxes must be introduced step by step, such that budgets and households can adjust and new technologies can gain momentum,” she said, adding: “Paris recently saw humanity’s worst side...
Who wouldn’t recall his lament in parliament when Pakistan’s enemy number one, the mass murderer Hakeemullah Mehsud, was taken out by a missile fired from a US drone? Nisar Ali Khan was so outraged that the floor of the house shook with his anger because the man he was so keen to negotiate with was no more...
If someone else matched the interior minister’s sense of outrage at Mehsud’s killing it was the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief...
Veteran television and theatre actress Sania Saeed was visiting Islamabad for the completion of ILO’s six-year programme which worked with women entrepreneurs and provided them trainings...
Television, content-wise, has been deteriorating...
TAXILA: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is going through a critical phase as the ruling party...
He said that Pakistan was facing threats at internal and external levels and unfortunately some “friends” were also involved in hatching a conspiracy to weaken the “pillars of the country”...
ISLAMABAD: Shocked by serious discrepancies in voter-to-population proportions across the country, the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) has called for age-wise data of population to determine the exact number of citizens eligible to vote in the next general elections...
The network, which is an amalgam of over four dozen NGOs, said that availability of data on the age composition of the population would enable a realistic...
Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Saturday that there is no difference of opinion among PML-N party leaders that confrontation with the higher judiciary of the country is not a wise idea...
Nisar said that it is common knowledge that he has been a "devil's advocate" to his party chief Nawaz Sharif and the advice that he presented at a meeting of the federal cabinet last year is also well known...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday issued a preliminary report of the draft proposals for the delimitation of constituencies of the national and provincial assemblies for the upcoming general elections in the country, with more than 30 unusually large and small constituencies in terms of population...
While the average population per constituency calculated on the basis of the last year census findings in...
KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet on Saturday decided to impose a phase-wise ban on use of polythene and plastic bags in the province, with Sukkur being the first district where such bags would be banned within next three months...
The amount of plastic waste had been increasing about 10 per cent each year for the past 20 years...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's annual consumer inflation rate rose to 3...
19pc in December, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Monday...